I am looking for a show and could use your help. Details are as follows:

I saw sometime between 1988 and 1989, most likely on the Fox affiliate out of Raleigh, NC.

It was animated in a style a step up from G.I. Joe and Transformers, and more like Japanese animation (a lot like the Transformers animated movie, actually.)

It centered around a college student named Lucky who built a talking motorcycle. When the motorcycle talked, the headlight would light up.

Lucky is a genius and on his way home from school, he sees that his parents’ lab has exploded and they’re dead.

Meanwhile, robot aliens (I believe they were copper colored and their leader was purple, perhaps all of the robots were purple) are heading to Earth to steal our gold supply (which I believe was a source of fuel for them.)

The governments of the world (or maybe the U.N.? I’m not sure.) catch wind of this and somehow Lucky is recruited to build vehicles to stop the invading robots. They’re built using the same technology as his motorcycle, so their headlights light up when they talk.

The alien robots crash into a women’s prison and take along an Amazon of a woman to help them.

The alien robots make their way to Fort Knox where all the gold is.
Lucky and company defeat them.

I know this is an old thread, but I have been searching for the title of this as well. I remember a few extra details.

The boy (main character) had parents who were working on a micro fusion reactor but one of their experiments failed and they died in the explosion. The boy picked up their research and used gold to contain the reaction and the reactors were put into small cylinders and installed into vehicles used by the resistance who was fighting back against the aliens. They used Mount Rushmore as their base

The aliens attacked and knocked out all power on earth, the only things that would work were the gold contained,reactors. The aliens were after the gold on earth and there was a final battle at fort knox as the o.p. stated

I know this is an old thread, but I have been searching for the title of this as well. I remember a few extra details.

The boy (main character) had parents who were working on a micro fusion reactor but one of their experiments failed and they died in the explosion. The boy picked up their research and used gold to contain the reaction and the reactors were put into small cylinders and installed into vehicles used by the resistance who was fighting back against the aliens. They used Mount Rushmore as their base

The aliens attacked and knocked out all power on earth, the only things that would work were the gold contained,reactors. The aliens were after the gold on earth and there was a final battle at fort knox as the o.p. stated

Would love to find this one...

A friend of mine was the OP on this thread, but doing my annual search for information about this anime/cartoon (which usually just yields my own various posts) alerted me to this!

I had forgotten about the gold being used for the reactors! Thank you for adding to my knowledge about this!

Upon thinking it over, this cartoon might have been broadcast as late as 1991 or 1992. It could have still been produced in the 80s and only aired in America in the early 90s, but hopefully this time frame might help jog other people's memories.